By Mo Yan.
Published January, 2006
Shengsi Pilao. Translated into English as Life and Death are Wearing Me Out, by Howard Goldblatt.
In keeping with Mo Yan's characteristic themes, Shengsi Pilao is a story of peasants' lives between 1950 and 2000, narrated by an executed landlord who returns to the world reincarnated as a series of humble animals.